Development Vocabulary

Branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout life:

• Biological

• Developmental

• Psychosocial

• Cognitive

Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during development and cause harm.

• FAS

• Germ

• teratogen

Physical & cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking.

• teratogen

• FAS

• Flu

Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.

• assimilation

• accomodation

• schema

• habituation

Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.

• Walking

• Maturation

• Talking

Who came up with cognitive development?

• Piaget

• Erikson

• Freud

• Kohlberg

All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering & communicating.

• schema

• assimilation

• accomodation

• cognition

A concept or framework that organizes & interprets information.

• schema

• assimilation

• accomodation

• cognition

Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

• cognition

• assimilation

• accommodation

Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information.

• cognition

• schema

• assimilation

• accommodation